#carver is too

[jacklyn-flynn]

Isabela decides to leave an illustrated erotic book around each of her companions just to see what their reactions are. 

Merrill helpfully returns it to Aveline by leaving it on her desk. Because she’s married so it has to be hers, right? She swears she didn’t look at it. That would be rude. 

Aveline shoves it into a desk drawer, muttering about Donnic, and then pretends she didn’t see anything. 

Varric: “Oh, research!”

Fenris burns it. 

Sebastian spontaneously bursts into flames in the middle of the Chantry. 

Hawke very casually picks it up and puts it on their bookshelf. 

Anders pretends to be disgusted but looks at a few pages when he thinks no one is looking.

Bethany leaves it in the Tower library on one of the tables for the same reason Isabela left it. Later, they share the results. 

Carver rips out a few pages and then leaves it exactly where he found it.  

[sadmages]

Replaying DA2 again. Missed these freaks

[vaguely-concerned]

purple hawke who, at malcolm's death, lost not only a father, a mentor, the single most stable and safe point in their world up until this moment. but also the only person in their life who would consistently, gleefully 'yes, and — ' them. the loss, in one fell swoop, of both a beloved parent and your sole willing — no, not only willing, enthusiastic — improv partner. truly, the most unkindest cut of all that the maker could have seen fit to deal. (there's always so much less laughter in the house, after malcolm's gone.)

and then after all the horrors of the blight and trying to make a new life in the shithole turned shithome of kirkwall....... they meet varric. and something that's been slumbering deep within their soul dries a tear of relief and joy and whispers 'oh we are so back'. and they are so right

[elfcollector]

Did you think you mattered, Hawke? Did you think anything you ever did mattered? [...] You're a failure, and your family died knowing it.

[viina-art]

Started da2 recently, and I truly love Carver so much. Ik this game is like 13 years old, but when they decided the player character could take their annoying little hater of a brother along on their adventures, they did that for me specifically <3

[harringroveera]

—Stranger Things edition

[a-spacecadet]

Jock JFK 🏈

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(And he didn’t even scuff his loafers!)

[theluckywizard]

A matching set! ETA some detail shots

[queenimmadolla]

high thought of the night

it’s crazy to think a lot of the fandom would be sucking jason’s dick if he wasn’t so prep school-generically attractive. if he was a little more rugged, shaggier hair, maybe some stubble, his haters would have thrown every excuse in the book at his actions and i’d be seeing a lot more of x reader fics for him floating around lol

[sanzosin]

Anders’ panic attack in deep roads Act 1 and the hairband that saved him! :D

[crownedinmarigolds]

Pre-sketching some of our Fangfest submissions because we will be out of town for half of June. 🥲🥲 I am loving these so far though...

[itswhatyougive]

Something that's been bothering me is a small detail in ST4 set design, specifically Eddie's trailer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the only place I remember seeing prominently displayed laundry baskets full of dirty clothes, both in the Right Side Up and Upside Down versions of the trailer.

I keep thinking back to Eddie's pointed comment to Jason Carver in the very first episode of S4, about basketball being a game where you "toss balls into laundry baskets". They drove that line home even further by having Dustin repeat it back to Eddie at the cafeteria table.

It's giving me this nagging feeling that Jason and Eddie have more history than we're led to think.

Eddie said it with such bitterness and anger, loud enough that he wanted Jason to take the bait, which he did.

The latest chapters of Hellfire in ST Puzzle Tales also reinforce the fact that Eddie is very very touchy about basketball and the basketball team. He calls it "gross" and he doesn't even want to see Lucas wearing his basketball jacket. It seems oddly "personal", this chip on his shoulder about basketball and Jason.

Do they have some kind of shared history? Is it meant literally, do the laundry baskets have some kind of significance? The Upside Down version of the trailer is stuck in 1983, is it possible three years ago or more Jason used to come over there for some reason? Or is it a figurative thing?

Part of me thinks that new Eddie Munson book that's coming out will have something about Jason in it. Flight of Icarus is set in 1984, so possibly after whatever history he and Jason had. Eddie would be a senior (first time) at Hawkins High School and Jason would've been a sophomore.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

One of my favorite things that happened during my last mage Hawke playthrough was during the final battle against Meredith. Everything's going well. We're kicking her ass, she's got just this much health left, we're so close... but then everyone gets stunned dizzy.

Hawke is stumbling around all confused, seeing stars. The rest of his companions are stunned. I'm annoyed because I just want to end this fight. Don't know how or who did it, probably Meredith, but the situation's dire.

Meredith's standing by herself at the center of the Gallows, shouting nonsense and smugly believing the Maker's going to come down and make her his new bride after she murdered a bunch of innocent people.

Truly, this is the part of the story where Varric says they all thought hope was lost, that in the end, Meredith would pull a fast one on us and claim victory...

Until the REAL hero of dragon age 2 comes storming at her. I don't know why Carver was the only one to not be affected, but he literally jumped out of no where and just started bashing Meredith with his sword while everyone else was too dizzy to do anything until she was dead and the cutscene played.

"Hawke defeated Meredith-" LIES, VARRIC. I know the truth! I was there! Hawke didn't do shit! Carver Hawke was the main character all along! He got shit done and Varric gave Hawke all the credit!

I bring this up because last night I finished my warrior Hawke run and when we got to the fight with Meredith, I kind of hoped the same thing would happen where Bethany dashed in all heroic and got the killing blow on Meredith.

She did not.

She got squished by a statue.

But it's fine, Bethany Hawke was the true main character in my heart.

[crows-of-buckets]

Aoiugghghh hang on. Carver comforting romanced Anders after Hawke gets left in the fade. They may not like each other, barely tolerating the others presence, but after Hawke is gone sharing stories of them is the only way the two of them stay sane. Carver hearing the news and immediately seeking out Anders because that's what Hawke would have wanted, for anders to be safe, and now that they're gone, suddenly obeying his sibling's wishes doesn't seem so awful.

[mourn-and-watch]

obsessed with warden carver's "in war, victory, champion, and whatever else may come" farewell line. he really refrained from mentioning the "in death, sacrifice" part to his sibling he was going to follow into a battle that seemed pretty much doomed to almost everyone

[spacedlexi]

speaking of fucked up overly hated female twdg characters i find it Super Interesting how people will say carver was the best villain in the whole series, but when lilly is literally just a successful carver (iron fist leader of a community turning children into soldiers) suddenly shes a bad/lame villain for some reason 🤔